tweeting, look at the bottom. look at that bottom put in. and i was like, wait a minute, it has lower highs and lower lows week after week after week. how on earth do you know that it's going back above 500 to 510? and it more likely didn't put in a bottom. but 44 points sxhit was, i think, up on the session. trading session yesterday. it was up like 10 or 15 points and then it lost all that afterwards. the other -- and suddenly rim -- have you been reading about the blackberry kent? suddenly that's back to single digits closing in on 20 again. i read what liesman was saying. you put in one letter and it knows what word you want. did you see that? it learned as you go along. when kind of keyboard? >> all i want is the qwerty keyboard. >> what is that? >> a keyboard that pushes button

and stuff. i think the first one they have is a screen one. i think eventually they'll bring out one that has a qwerty keyboard, as well. >> netflix, we use this. you can get old episodes of law through your playstation. >> you can have it put right into your television. >> see, video streaming service posting a profit of 15 krevents a share. my blackberry makes a sound every time i get a message. >> are you kidding? >> every time it buzzes, it's either itunes or netflix i've bought something. now, who is doing that? >> i would assume the kids are doing that. >> like every minute. it's like, oh.

>> you know that sounds will annoy you. >> that's okay. can you -- >> does it bother you? >> no. i feel good. i feel like i'm -- >> i'm going to send you e-mails. >> i feel like i'm involved. did you see what facebook causes in people? >> what? >> loneliness, envy, jealousy, depression. here they are sitting in their dpred depressing basement and they're seeing these people doing these -- the lives they're lead sg like, my life is horrible. did you see that? facebook makes you depressed. >> it doesn't surprise me. especially when people are checking in on people that they're not friends with any more. >> right. >> it's like, look at what i'm doing. everybody else is living this great lye, but they're not, either. they're on facebook. >> pretending. >> yeah. probably pretend vacations, pretend girlfriends. revenue beat estimates that came in at $945 million. the company added 2.1 million

subscribers for a total of 27.2 million. ceo reed hastings spoke with our julia boorstin exclusively about future growth. >> now, if you look over the last year, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, nearly 10 million subscribers. what we want to do is keep making the survey better and better. some quarters we come in above forecasts and some quarters below. it's more of a forecasting issue than a business issue. and, really, what's happening is internet tv, this click and watch, the control you have, being able to watch on an ipad, all of those things are very powerful and more and more people are doing that. >> and netflix shares jumped more than 30% on the news. stocks still well below its all-time high back in mid 2011. do you know, querty, did they make that up? >> i thought it was q-w-e-r-t-y.

>> yeah. why is it called that? >> i don't know. >> honestly? >> oh, no. it's the first line of the keyboard. >> yeah. i didn't know that. i was trying to trick you. >> i didn't, either. the control room told me. >> oh! who? >> dave evans. >> snake. you saved your rear. >> yain that, either. and i looked down and i go, holy -- >> holy cow, i didn't know that's what it was, either. >> holy qwerty. yesterday stocks were up once go. the dow is up nine sessions out of ten in a row. as many foourchs futures and nasdaq futures are indicated slightly lower, but the s&p 500 was up yesterday for the sixth strayed day. it was not, by the way, had a seven-day winning streak back to october 2006. if things were to turn around today, we could break that session. we'll see what happens. we have a lot of earnings coming out before the bell.

obviously, technology has been deriving things over the next couple of days. it had its best day in a year and ibm made up for all of the dow's gain by 60%. >> also, take a look at ohio prices to $9550. and the ten-year yield at this point has jobless claims. economists are looking for an upset aftervery low numbers the last time around. you can see right now that the dollar is mixed this morning. it's down against the euro, which is at 11-3358. and gold prices are down,

$1,678.20 an ounce. michael corbett says the bank has the right status to generate future growth. speaking at the world economic forum in davos, he tells cnbc that several years worth of revamping efforts are beginning to pay off. >> over the last year, we've simplified the company a lot the. we've become smaller, we've become simpler. >> corbat took over in october after the resignation of chief vickram pandit. >> very sharp in the stripes. >> yeah. >> the gegco, do we have a shot at him? >> no. >> that looks pretty good. there's product in there. what do you think, it's water? there is product. and, you know -- >> davos, they tend to walk out with wet hair and it turns to ice. >> but people don't look that

good in davos, normally. >> that's true. >> he looks like a banker there. i think he has a lot of potential as far as his looks go. in the world economic forum in davos is in full swing. let's get to andrew buzzing in the mountains of switzerland. you're a big apple-phile, too. >> you're hoping people look good in davos? what's going on here? >> i was going to -- >> we have a very, very -- we have a beautiful, gorgeous guest to my left right now. >> guest. >> jen bista-moyo is here. she is davos woman and here we are -- is that is not right. and you had bed head yesterday, appeared rue. did you ever look over here, it was like a big lump.

he goes in there and is does a lot of stuff. >> you didn't tell him that? >> well, i didn't want to tell him on the air. >> i'mng to embarrass you on the air. >> tell me on a commercial break. >> i didn't notice, andrew, or i would tell you. >> guys, thank you -- thank you, becky. you guys were talking about blackberry so. to drop some names last night, we have different with orstin hines. i should tell you, jamie dimon and lloyd flankfine were there. what was the thing they wanted to see? they wanted to play with the blackberry. guess who else was at the table? and this was, i thought, pretty cool even though i'm not the biggest sports fan in the world. derek jeter. our producer, she got a picture with him. and i think that made her whole trip, right? she's right there and she's very happy and she's smiling. she's kind of embarrassed.

anyway, david cameron arriving here this morning. yesterday we talked about what he was proposing in the uk in items of potentially getting out of the eurozone. today, he took a different tactic. we talked about not raising tax rates, but as corporations around the world both affecting issues in the uk and elsewhere are becoming a real issue. i want you to take a look at this piece. >> individuals and bess must pay their fair var. and businesses who think they can carry on, they can keep selling to the uk, and selling uk tax arrangements are for you to wake up and sell the company. >> that comment, by the way,

about coffee is actually about starbucks which has created some problems because they've been avoiding taxes in the uk. but take a look at this quote right here. david cameron not making friends. labor mp dennis skinner says it was gruesome for the prime minister to be heading out of austerity-riddled britain to wine and dine at davos with 50 top bankser who helped create the economic crash several hundred tax avoiding milliona e millionaires. >> a lot of people talk today about a report. there was a report earlier this morning that mr. oh lund discovered averting. in total, the report was said to be untrue. we have a lot more to come, by the way, including a huge interview with ray dalio that we're going to do at 7:30. so stay tuned for that. but in the meantime, the

beautiful guest i was talking about, we're going to get to her right now. she is, i think, davos woman. you've been here for 12 years? >> something like that. >> how many years have you been here? >> something like that, actually. i can't believe it. but yeah, off and on. joe, we were talking about apple. but one of the things -- and you wrote the book on china. one of the big issues that came up in the earnings report is margin compression in part because their costs are going up. >> yeah. >> how much is that going to continue? how much is that going to be a problem? and what other companies is it going to affect? >> i would answer this in a couple of ways. first of all, we tend to get focused on wages and wage pressures. it's important to be focused on that, but i think what that is comes down to what? >> what i would suggest is that

first of all, need to not just focus on wages, per se, that's important, but think about the broad r concept and see what the implications might be. but the other quick thing i would say is 90% of the population lives in the emerging woorld. we have no idea what's going to happen yet and to other places where actually there could be significant cost businesses. >> when you think about labor, is this going to hit the other atlanticmakers soon. it's robotics. feeding gene into the sorry. will electronics wps be affected like this? yes. but i think other companies around the world are looking at this very seriously. >> you mentioned energy. people have talked about energy and shale and fracking before, but not like this year.

you were there about a year in advance. your sense of how quickly this will happen? i will tell you, it's not built into the market at all. >> i think it's right not to be built into the market. one of the things that i wrote about in my book last year that i think it will kind of be overoptimistic about what the implications of the revolutions could be. could the united states be energy independent? that would be fantastic. but there are so many effects that people don't factor in. >> are you a believer, by the way, that oil could go down to $30 or $40 a barrel? >> no. no. >> somebody last night was making that observation. >> i do not believe that that is the case. in the past, i've woshgdz closely in oil and gas and i think those people are missing the structural implications.

we're living in vary unique position. this is vary unique time in the history of the world in terms of population. the population pressure themselves i think will raise the floor on the oil prices. your sense on the mood of an economy. steams you come there and you obviously things don't always always come through. northbound suggested it's because the adjectives are fun. do you buy that? >> no. i would say the last couple of years, people were pretty negative. i have to say, though i've only been here a day, people are pretty positive this time. a bit more optimistic about what might be happening. i wouldn't say it's time to pop champagne, but people have been more positive this year. >> thank you for being here.

joe, becky, back to you guys. we'll see new a little bit. we have a fun segment for you at 6:30. >> you do. i looked through some of the stuff, andrew. you're a regular skier. >> it's a little embarrassing, but we'll show it to you. >> don't give it away. >> but your heel -- >> there it is. >> your heel is not tethers to the ski, right? that's what makes it -- right? >> this is a different type of skiing that i had never done before. >> oh, god. good. >> now you've got the piece. you'll see it. there might be a fall or two involved. >> that's how your hair got messed up yesterday. coming, what's a fair price for apple now that it's below $500 a share? i can tell you right now, $467.80. do you hear cameron? i love that fair share stuff. i'm going to listen to a politician about what's fair.

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welcome back, everybody. take a look. u.s. equity futures are indicated higher this morning, up by just over 10 points. the dow and the s&p 500 have

been on a huge winning streak. down has been up for nine out of the last ten sessions. and the s&p has been up seven sessions in a row. we'll see how today plays out. right annoy, the s&p futures and the nasdaq futures are indicated slightly lower. let's take a look at shares of nokia, the hand setmaker beating expectations, announcing plans to scrap its dividends. that stock at this point looks like it's up about 4 cents. >> apple shares taking a hit. brian white joins us now with reaction. and, you know, brian, we can parse through these metrics and we can find out exactly what a percentage shortfall in these things. but it all comes down, you need to be a psychiatrist. at $700 versus $400. it's the same company, basically had the same prospects, same innovation, same products, same market share and same potential for global growth that it always

had. it all has to do with investor sentiment. and at this point, you can see it right there on the chart. that tells you where it should be trading. i don't see how we can say it shouldn't be there or whether it should be there. that's where it is, right? >> it's been a slippery slope. they ran into a lot of yield issues in december quarter that held back the demand for ipad mini, for iphone 5. the quarter was -- minus our sales, a tad lower than the street. eps was better. it's the outlook that people are concerned with. they did change their outlook commentary in that they're not going to be ultra conservative. they're going to give something realistic in a range. and one of the things we did earlier in the week is twaek or model for an iphone in june as opposed to what we taught an ipad in march versus an october launch. that brought our number down to right in their revenue range and our eps in the street.

so we think they expected an iphone 5 in their future. >> on the way up, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600. all it was was you could have parsed the metric then and said this wasn't as good as we thought it was. but people didn't own the stock yet. people that wanted to get excited about the apple story didn't own it yet. when it comes to 700, everyone who felt bullish, everyone finally owned it and who do you sell it to at a higher price? it's simple psychology of greed and fear and everything, right? >> you bring up a great point. and this is what -- >> i give up, brian. i look at the numbers and i say there's no reason for me to do this. i need to take a psychology course. >> these guys have the best portfolio. >> and that hasn't changed. >> there's very exciting things on the horizon, apple tv, china

mobile. what they need to do is tap into this cash balance in a major way. >> yeah. so a dividend that's higher than we previously previously had. and a $10 billion buyback over ten years, why not do 5 million back at 10%? >> tlooefb doing that are to a while, too. people always put them down for it, but you can't deny it as 204 or whenever it is. >> exactly. and that's what apple needs to do. at 137 in cash, they can do it been that's something to look forward to, as well. >> the minute they do that, though, people will say, you see, it's over, right? >> well, you know, i think they announced the dividends early last year and they need to hike it. you can't sit around with 137 billion. >> what would happen with the

stock, do you think, if they did that. not a sustained dividend. 3 billion in just over three years is kind of consulting. >> over 600, they all have trouble. it doesn't matter who it is at 600 million. and i don't know how many of your peers said at 700, you know, they kept talking about the multiple, cheap, cheap, still cheap, 500, still cheap. cheap is stock in the tech universe, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap. 467 today. still cheap. cheaper. >> i mean, it's trading at six sometimes cash, right? so it definitely is cheap. >> gotta be a buy. >> i think one of the problems is just expanding the investor base. >> who is in it? >> and that's cash, distribute

i ing. >> i started at 300. >> some of the big he market caps -- >> yeah. by far. >> it's 300 for a gadgetmaker. and then i get converted, everybody against converted finally, but then it's like greenspan with the rationale exuberance. it's 5,000 on the dow and it went to 14,000. so urch right. >>. >> i wish, you know, with ibm. . >> i look up and then i call you brian. >> in china, that's what they call me. when we come back, the head of pimco is leaving.

and when in davos, in this case. andrew tries his hand at cross-country skiing. >> oh, my god. that is him.

>> yeah. i agree fully. good morning and welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm joe kernen along with becky quick. andrew ross sorkin is reporting live from davos, switzerland. he borrowed saber's hat. i didn't know what happened to that, but he's going to be wearing it when he does his package that we're going to take a listen to here in a couple of

minutes. at what time? >> it's like in three minutes. >> okay. in the headlines this morning, apple shares taking a hit. yeah, that's one way you can phrase it, i guess. after the company issued a disappointing revenue forecast as well as iphone sales that fell below estimates, apple shares hit a high of $705 back in september. but has now seen about a third of that saved off and almost a 50-point loser today. for china manufacturing activity rose this month to the fastest pace in tw years, monthly hsbc, they use a purchasing manager's index. and it registered its fifth straight monthly rise and that's an indication that china may be coming out of an economic -- a deceleration, obviously, and they're still growing more quickly than most other companies. we're about two hours away from the labor department's weekly

report on jobless claims. the economists expected to jump and give back those big gains they saw last week. it was a five-year low last week. you remember the market rallied. it was 360,000. at that point, we had to get a housing start number and we were up sharply that day. that's helped the rally. >> it has. i think it's nine out of ten days that we've seen so far with the dow. take a look at the futures this morning. so far, dow futures have been indicated a little higher, right now, up by just over 6.5 points. s&p futures are down. nasdaq futures are weaker, as well. they're down by about 32 points. this is coming after a very long winning streak. we are speccing more news this morning, expecting some 3m and dow components. if you take a look at what happened in europe, all of this good news, the dow was unby 67 points yesterday. at this point, it's three points away from its all-time high. yesterday you saw a lot of

movement. right now, europe is trading slightly higher. the cac was up by about 4 points and in germany, the dax is lower by about 11 points. in asia, you did see higher closes. it was up by 1.25%. the shanghai and the hang seng were slightly lower. other markets in area slightly lower. let's take a look at oil price these morning. up by 32 cents, $95.55 for wti. the ten-year is yielding at 1.812%. those jobless claims, that will be a big factor for what's happening in the market today. the dollar is mixed. down against the euro, 1.3326. higher against the yen. gold price these morning have been down slightly, down by about $9. $1,677.70 an ounce. and we have some other news. we have been focusing on this morning, pimco's neel kashkari who has been on, a frequent squawk guest, he is leaving the

firm. he says he's considering returning to government service, potentially running for public office in california as a republican. cash kashkari has been a frequent guest. he oversaw the t.a.r.p. program during the financial crisis before going to pimco in 2009. in a statement, kashkari says he has the obligation and the desire to serve his community through public service. >> i knew he would need to do this. he is out there, he's a republican, and he is right in the middle, the vortex of these caviar communists. growth. one even became a guru. >> macaulay. >> with the beard and he's up there goes ohm, ohm. he's in the lotus position. there aren't any mountains in southern california. i don't know where he went dodd that. el-erian. el-erian writes for the huffington post. el-erian is a huge caviar

communist. >> neel is a moderate republican. >> yeah. but moderate republican in the land of pimco, he has a rash all over his body. it was only a matter of time. >> this is that time. the funds he set up said it was designed for really big downturns. you can imagine a lot of people were concerned about that. but they had run below what other performances had been, but that's because he sat up these funds, he said, to really weather the storm. >> i'm with you, neel. i don't know how you lasted that long. good luck. there's a guy that might replace him. to andrew, how do you like that round? >> i'm in the land of the caviar communists right now. >> you are. and liberals. >> we have caviar last night. >> i'm not surprised. >> did you, really? >> they have all these rich guys and they're -- about cameron and it's great.

i warned you about the stockholm syndrome. you're already susceptible to that complete ideology. >> completely. it's all around me. >> you might reject it. this might be just what the doctor ordered. out might end up rejecting it now that you're in the middle of all of it and you mitt come back a changed guy. >> could be. >> when donald trump is your boss, you may have to change that a little bit. >> i saw that. i saw he may want to buy the "new york times." >> he wants to buy it and close it down, which i'm all for. go ahead, andrew. >> in the meantime, davos is not noenl for the world economic forum, but for skiing. not just downhill skiing, but cross-country skiing. i am not a cross-country skier, but i tried it for the first time. i took a lesson with a pro. and i thought i was getting good at it, so i decided, maybe against my better judgment, to

take him on. a brief warning for viewers. i was so freezing out, i was wearing a hat. and what happened in davos should probably stay in davos, but nonetheless, for yao viewing pleasure, here it is. we're here in davos for our first stop. what do we need to do? we have to get decked out in the right gear. hi. how are you doing? >> i'm fine, thank you. >> i'm going skiing, cross-country skiing for the first time ever. wa do i need to wear? okay. so we're all suited up and ready to go. i'm andrew. >> hi. i'm yen. >> thank you for doing this. this is the line, right here. three, two, one.

i'm catching up. >> okay. so you beat me. thank you for that. >> well, there it is. the whole production crew was laughing at me here, so i don't know what's going on back in new york, but that fall was -- that was a pretty bad tall. anyway, that's what's going on here. quick -- joe, i'm surprised there has not been some kind of commentary at this point. >> i had actual questions because i've never done it. with regular skis on, there are times where you need to do that sort of hockey -- >> i hate that. >> and it looks harder. >> do the triangle. >> it looks harder to do with

your heels not attached. >> because you don't really have the edge. exactly. but it was -- it was quite a sight. there was another fall that no one -- >> you know, guys that know what they're doing going down like a tough slope and cost lots of nose dives. they know -- there are guys that can do it down a steep, blue slope. >> cool to watch guys that know what they're doing. >> i assume that you guys are just going to loop this for -- i'm not going to listen. this is going to go on for a year. >> no, i think we're going to run it again. >> braver than i am.etty well. >> we're trying. a number of executives, by the way, you should know. i wasn't the only one out there. there are a number of executives who every morning go out and do cross-country skiing before they go to the meetings. but they probably don't want me to name them because they're probably supposed to be working.

anyway, we have ray dalio coming up in a little bit. >> thank you, andrew. when we come whack, our next guest says that equities are historically steep. we will welcome solar management's executive head of equities right after this. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn

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welcome back, everybody. the united states and european economies have been on the comeback trail. investors are showing more signs of confidence as the dow gets closer to an all-time high. joining us now is virginie mano. she has over $17 billion under assets and management. it's very nice to see you. >> thank you. >> you say even though we've seen some gains, things are

price i relatively cheaply when you look around at other asset classes? >> yes, exactly. if you look at historical valuation, i think we're at the beginning only of a reallocation of bonds into equities. this is only the beginning. i think in particular growth stocks, people have head away from risks in general. we are not overweight europe where we were very underweight, you know, a year ago. and i think the key is to understand that market move on the delta, the secondary services. we are going from pmis of 43 to 44 to 45. so we're not at 51 like china is, for example. but still there's a healing in europe that's happening. it's going to be slow, though, and painful. but it's happening. >> if you are overweight europe now, are there other areas that you're feeling less confident about or you think won't be the big growth? >> no. i'm actually underweight the u.s. not that i don't like the u.s. i like some of the areas that are doing very well.

housing i like. i like some of the consumer, like financials, but overall, given the size of the u.s. in the benchmark which is, you know, 57%, there's so many opportunities around the world. europe, but also merging markets and asia that i think, you know, i want to spend some of that money to truly build a global portfolio of good, blue chips, high quality, high conviction growth names. >> in europe, are there sectors or sights that you like in particular? >> i like industrials. some financials, but i remain very cautious in my selection of financials in the sense that i don't want other leverage, i want, you know, good quality company. some of them might have exposure, but i'm quite keen to stay with the core area because i think, you know, buying stock the way we do it on the street in a five-year basis, it is the ability in greece and italy and

spain is still very, very unclear. >> financials, some people are worried about the amount of regulation that's coming down. are there particular stocks on the financials that you think are better served than others? >> yeah, i think depending if you look at scandinavian banks, for example, like bnp or even if you look at the bnp in france, i think, you know, they are coming from so far particular by the bnp, that a lot of that is discounted. if i turn to emerging markets, i like indonesia a lot, i like thailand a lot. even mexico. so there you can find some very interesting financials with strong growth support, mostly based around middle class growth and demand. >> virginie, thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you. >> it's been a pleasure speaking with you. coming up, "squawk box" takes flight with the ceo of northwest airlines. find out if the low-cast carrier still has love in the skies.

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there are the futures, not much happening. we'll see. whether the s&p and the dow can trade higher when it's got a drag like the nasdaq from apple today. and we'll finally get an answer on whether apple, which has been the favorite bull market stock for the past two years, at least, and we'll see whether, you know, with that story changing, whether that affects the dynamics of the overall stock market, because, you know, a lot of the good feelings, and the profits made in the stock market that gets maybe retail investors excited it's come from apple.

>> although apple has split itself from the major markets have kind of split off from apple. it's gone down from 700 to below $500 and the market keeps getting new highs as that's been happening. it doesn't have the same impact that it used to have. >> anybody that's bought between 465 on the way up and then from 700 on the way down is not like wow, i'm glad i'm playing the stock market. >> people are feeling pretty good if they bought netflix before yesterday. >> and comcast. southwest airlines rolled out quarterly results this morning. it was, i think, nine cents a share, which was two cents ahead of expectations. it's an interesting story with what southwest has been up against and that is a rejuvenated sector across the board, with a lot of the former competitors getting together, getting to the, and lining up, and having a lot of success. delta has been -- united,

couldn'tent inal. who knows what happens with american. it's a different world for southwest. >> in terms of charging for baggage. >> now they're charging for other weird stuff. gary kelly is chairman and ceo of southwest airlines. gary, i know we had some camera problems so we're going to do this on the phone right now. we have a great picture of you which doesn't really do you justice the way that you look live. >> i can't see it anyway. so -- >> so pretty good quarter. but do you feel like this is an overall question, do you feel like it's kind of a different world now that some of your competitors actually are giving you a run for your money? >> well, i definitely think it's more competitive. i don't think there's any question about that. this is our 42nd year. it has always been a very, very competitive industry. but, through bankruptcy, every single legacy carrier has gone through bankruptcy. and they've gotten their costs down significantly. and it is primarily their labor cost. so that makes them more cost

competitive, and then the other thing that's happened over the last ten years is you do have a lot of low-cost carriers entering the market. so it's a competitive industry. everybody's dealing with higher fuel prices, which puts upward pressure on fares, so, right now the industry's not growing. the capacity in 2012 is actually down, again, and that's what i would expect the industry to do. at least domestically here again in 2013. >> you look at how much money delta makes on the baggage gary, over $600 million. and even on your air tran flights that you took over, you charge for baggage. you do get a lot of advertising mileage out of not charging for bags, but eventually are you going to have to capitulate and start doing that? now you can pay $40 and get on a southwest flight, you know, maybe 45 minutes early for $40. seems like it might be easier than, you know, just to start charging for baggage. >> well, our focus right now,

and especially since 2006, has been on evolving the southwest product, and giving our customers more choice. we're also very aggressively optimizing our route network. and that focus has served us well. and i think that's what we'll want to continue to do over the next several years. i would never say never. again the customers will tell us whether they would refer to have extra fees, or whether they would prefer to have everything bundled in. >> we're going to -- >> once told me he would never raise fees. he would never charge for baggage. but gary you're saying that never say never? >> well, yeah, you always have to say never say never. but we have no plans to charge for bags here in 2013. >> we're going to get the camera fixed and have a longer interview next time. all right. we'll be right back. at optionsxpress we're all about options trading. we create easy to use, powerful trading tools for all. look at these streaming charts! they're totally customizable

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missing the mark. could apple's disappointing results rattle investors today? get the latest information before today's opening trade. the market's in focus. trading at a record-setting pace this month, where stocks are heading and what it means for your money. what's squawking in davos? more ahead live from the world economic forum. the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. good morning, everybody. welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc. i'm becky quick along with joe kernen. andrew is in davos where he's covering the world economic forum. we'll catch up with him in just a moment but we've been watching the futures which are mixed this morning. dow futures are higher, up just about by six points while the

s&p futures are down 2 1/2. nasdaq down by about 34. a lot of that is because of what we've seen in apple. in our headlines this morning the dow creeping back towards record territory. its close yesterday was the highest since october 21st of 2007. that happens to be the same month that the dow hit its record high. of course, yesterday's gain was driven almost entirely by ibm. without big blue it would have registered just a one-point gain versus the 67-point gain that it came in with at the end of the day thanks to ibm. citigroup's ceo tells cnbc that he is confident the bank is headed in the right direction after several years of scaling back and becoming more efficient. >> i think from a go forward perspective we're very focused on execution, driving the consistency and quality of earnings going forward and i think we're starting to show that. but as a team we've got to execute. >> corbett spoke to cnbc at the world economic forum in davos. of course he took over for vikram pandit back in october. mitsubishi is recalling

nearly 15,000 electric vehicles in japan and in europe for a potential problem involving brakes. it's one of the biggest recalls ever, involving electric cars. and apple says that it's going to get real when it comes to giving the street guidance. after the bell apple reported stronger profits. a miss on revenue, and iphone sales which also missed expectations. jon fortt has more on apple's new guidance. good morning, john. >> very buzzed-about earnings call. perhaps the most buzzed-about moment, apple's ceo announced the company will change the way it gives guidance. for those of us who cover the company awhile, the guidance has been sort of a joke. kind of the earnings equivalent of a friend who says i'll be at the restaurant at 7:00 so you know that really means 7:30. apple will now say we'll be at the restaurant between 7:00 and 7:30. for awhile apple's lack of accuracy was sort of a thrill for investors. apple with lowball guidance, analysts would put their estimates a little above that guidance and apple's results

would below past both. in recent quarters the wheels have come off that cycle. lately apple's been giving a number and coming pretty close to it. last quarter tim cook guided to $52 billion in revenue and apple delivered 54.5. under the new system apple might have guided to between 52 and 54 billion and delivered a very modest beat. it's interesting, i've been going over some custom charts i made over the past few hours because that's what we cnbc reporters do and the growth trajectory on iphone and ipad continues unabated. also apple's gross margins just contract on a to-year cycle when apple redesigns the iphone its highest margin product. just happens that way. the 38.6% margin this holiday quarter compares to a 38.4% margin two years ago, when the iphone four came out. seems to me apple's main problem here might be a failure to manage expectations. apple new pretty well in july and september that the end of the year would turn out this way. but they could have prepared the street better. seems that's what they're setting up to do, guys. >> jon, why don't you stick

around and stay for this conversation. we also want to bring in an apple analyst. joining us right now is daniel ernst, principle at hudson square research. you heard what john just said about things. what's your reaction to the numbers last night, and the guidance? >> you know, let's take kind of a step back. yesterday, apple reported operating or cash from operations grew $23 billion. yet after market the stock's down $50 billion. so they added more cash, or you know, it just -- expectations relatio reality, i think, are a little bit out of whack. and certainly is a valuation. but it's still a great company. people still line up for their products. iphone sales up almost 30% year over year. ipad sales up 48% year over year. so you know, the company is still growing. but i think the problem is, outside of expectations is the reality is, apple is slowing. they're still growing but not the same rate that they had been before. so we have this company that

investors and the market got used to a hypergrowth apple. last year, apple grew revenues 45% year over year, and earnings grew 60%. this year, if we're right, revenues will grow at 23% and earnings just 11%. so it's still good growth for a company doing, you know, on an annualized basis, $200 billion in revenues to have a 30% operating margin. it's still a great company. it's still growing. it's still gaining relative share. but i think there's this sort of back to earth, you know, we're exiting the stratosphere and coming back to more normalized, i can think of as the new normal for apple, is that they're growing at a good rate. just not a fantastic rate. >> so what's a fair valuation, what's a hair price if that's the situation, if we're coming out of hyperdrive? >> that's right. i mean, it feels like just yesterday we were talking about this with google. but i think the difference with google is that they've never had that period of hyperactive growth.

right? they're going from 33% annual growth on the top line to 24%. so it's a -- not as a dramatic change. and google has never traded at a hypermultiple. if apple were to trade on par with s&p, roughly 14 times earnings, the stock would be around $700. the stock's below $500 today. they have $130 billion of cash, or $148 billion cash and $38 per share of cash in the balance sheet. take that out, the trading closer to six times earnings. >> do you think the stock is going to go back to that, daniel? or is this a situation like joe has been talking about earlier where there's no one left to jump in and no more investors to get into it? >> yeah. you know, i think you know, as one of your other speakers said earlier on a different company, you know, never say never. so i think that you constantly re-evaluating. i think, you know, the smart call, and it's a call that i didn't make, is to look at what

was a very obvious change in the growth trajectory of apple, even six months ago. we could see it -- >> what do you tell people to do today, if they don't own the stock or if they do own the stock or do you tell them to stay in or to jump in? >> i think that those who have the capability to add more to a position. you know the day after earnings is never a great day. you kind of want to see and settle out. people who are not in the stock or had been before, i think it's a good opportunity. apple is not a broken company. apple is not a melting ice cube. apple still is growing. so the problem with a lot of sort of value trap stories in tech is that the earnings keep going down every year. apple's earnings are still going up. just that they're not going up at the same rate. i think it's a fantastic opportunity. i've been saying that since it, you know, fell into the range so i've been wrong there. but i think you always have to re-evaluate, and take a step forward. but i think apple is still growing, they're still -- there's no lines anymore if samsung is making fun of.

that's going to be a problem for me. right now there's still lines and they're still growing and margins are still high. just not as much as they used to be. >> jon? >> you know, i think it's interesting that became was up so much yesterday powering the dow. this apple story is kind of like between the facebook ipo and ibm. ibm does so well at managing expectations. they're an extreme case of managing both expectations, and their earnings. facebook totally whipped it on their ipo by not correcting managing expectations. it seems like apple is sort of in that facebook wheelhouse trying to get more like ibm. right now, they're in the midst of a cycle where they redesigning a bunch of products. margins are down. but in terms of the number of iphones that they're shipping, very high. i mean, that's something that investors certainly need to think about. >> all right, john, thank you very much. daniel, thank you. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> the world economic forum is just heating up. let's get back to andrew. he has more from davos right

now. hey, andrew. >> hey, becky. we've actually changed positions. we're a little more behind the scenes here on the promenade right next to the congress center. this is where all the action is kopp happening. and a bit of news this morning, literally just an hour ago mario monti speaking about austerity and his worries that some of the policies taking shape in europe may actually slow growth. take a listen. >> we all have an interest in saving, in containing public spending. but i think it's against commonsense economics and history not to see the potential for economies of scale. of your budget slightly less restrained than we are forced and willing to restrain our national budgets. a little more behind the scenes. right here is where a security entrance is.

you're probably not allowed to talk on tv, is that right? i thought i'd try. the other bit of news this morning, david cameron, we talked about, taking a real slot at starbucks this morning and tax avoidance, going after companies broadly but specifically without referencing starbucks, making a mention about what they've done to avoid taxes in the uk. take a listen to this. >> individuals and businesses must pay their fair share. and businesses who think they can carry on, dodging that fair share, whether they can keep on selling to the uk, and setting up ever more complex tax arrangements abroad to squeeze their tax bills right down need to wake up and smell the coffee. because the public to buy from them have had enough. >> okay. we're running right now, through what is this heated bubble. we have a big show for you. coming up at 7:30 we have an exclusive interview with ray dalio, founder of the largest hedge fund in the world, bridgewater. then at 8:00, we have a whole

other bunch of guests. stay tuned where you are and we'll see you in just about 20 minutes. >> we are looking forward to that. big conversation coming up in just 20 minutes. we will see you very shortly. >> i still chafe listening to some brit tell americans they need to pay taxes, no taxation without representation. i mean we had a big -- remember what happened last time? >> 1776 was the last time we went around with this? >> didn't work so well this time. i don't feel like paying any taxes to great britain. they spend it worse than we spend it. what for the wedding we got to -- >> the royals? >> god bless howard schultz, finally. you know. >> i hear ya. >> but he's pretty sanctimonious about a lot of liberal issues over here but won't pay taxes in britain. that's cute. >> if you have any comments or questions about anything you see here on "squawk," go ahead and e-mail us at squawk@cnbc.com. or follow us on twitter.

the dow is up more than 5% in january alone. that is on pace for its best january since 1997. 9 s&p within striking disance of 1500. the dow is just 3% blow its all-time high. we're going to talk broader markets right after this. >> what's being said behind the scenes here at daf owes? we've got the dish after the break live from the world economic forum. ♪ [ male announcer ] when we built the cadillac ats from the ground up to be the world's best sport sedan... ♪ ...people noticed. ♪ the all-new cadillac ats -- 2013 north american car of the year. ♪ for a limited time, take advantage of this exceptional offer on the all-new cadillac ats.

the s&p 500 is within striking distance of the 1500 level. the dow jones is closing at its best level in five years. this morning the futures are up a little bit. about 10 points. our guest host is scott sperling, copresident of thl partners. used to hand for thomas h. living. >> sure does. >> and from new york tom greenhouse. cnbc contributor. i want to start with you, scott. i wouldn't necessarily expect you to be a market timer or individual stock picker. but doing what you do you need to have a valuation of the equity markets to decide on your strategy for what you do. fairly valued, overvalued, undervalued? >> i think at this point it's somewhere in the fairly valued range. i wouldn't say that it's dramatically undervalued. as we look at what's happened over the course of the last really 18 months what we've seen is a series of cycles in the credit markets that have been moving towards relatively robust situations.

that tends to affect what we do almost more than the equity market valuation. so we tend to focus on that a little bit more. on the other hand, the equity markets, as we say, looking at individual companies you can see a wide variation in the underlying value, and where those market values are relative to our assessment of the intrinsic value of that -- >> but overall the businesses are doing pretty well. >> i would say they're doing pretty well. i think the expectation is for continued sluggish growth. and given that, the businesses that we look at, the businesses that we own, are generally taking a relatively cautious position in terms of investment, and expansion of employment over the course of the next 12 months, is the expectation. if you look at the broader market, i think that's basically what the broader market is doing as well. so if we have any ability, and i'm not sure we do, but if we have any ability in washington to alleviate some of the continued uncertainties, and as we not check off the

uncertainties we were supposed to have made certain like tax policy, hopefully they're not going to continue to bring it back and say, well, we're not done yet. >> because sluggish -- >> that's what really holds things back. >> nobody likes the word sluggish. over time companies have learned to deal with sluggish growth and do it pretty well. makes you think if we could have regular growth -- >> i think one of the things that we're seeing in these earnings reports, and the reduction in expectations for the year that have occurred in analysts reports over the last six months or so, is that the revenue side of the business is the one everyone is struggling with. american companies in particular have done a spectacular job at managing their cost base. and at trying to figure out how to do more with less. so they've been able to use operating leverage to drive their earnings, and earnings growth. at this point, what we really need to focus on is revenue expansion. and that means making some investments, whether it's in marketing, whether it's in plant, whether it's in people,

that's something that you need a little bit more certainty on in order to do more aggressively. and that's what i think will take the market to the next level, if we get it. >> okay, dan greenhouse. the market from time to time does get narrow and yesterday, as we pointed out, it was all ibm that give us a positive day. is that something that concerns you as the leadership narrows and does apple do we need to worry about that casting a pall on the overall feeling about equities or is it all systems go, still? >> yeah, i mean that's obviously something to be concerned with. i mean one day of ibm being the primary driver isn't something that i'm going to freak out about. but i think becky's point earlier this morning was important. we're worried about apple's effect on the stock market yet apple's fallen from 7 plus hundred dollars to less than $500. >> dan, just to be fair, i stole that from your notes. this was your point that i took off of this. >> oh, well. >> that's why he thinks it's so

profou profound. >> becky, that's a wonderful, insightful piece of information. >> i stole it from you. >> he's really impressed with your logic. >> i loved the point. that's why i made it. i was stealing that from you. i should give you credit for it. >> becky, you're my best friend on the network. thank you very much. >> we'll see whether it's right. >> whether i said it or not the point is valid. the market continues to make highs and apple's fallen and we've gone from four-plus percent of the s&p to 3.6% of the s&p. that's apple's weighting. the rest of the market has done okay. obviously that's represented by the indices themselves. >> but why has -- would you say that what you've seen with the other earnings that have been coming in so far, does that validate where the stock prices are? >> i would agree with a lot of what scott had to say about the market being not over or undervalued but roughly fairly valued. a position that, where an argument you could have made for the last several quarters. >> were you bullish at all? i don't remember you being overly bullish over the last six months or a year. were you?

>> well, bullish is a word i use hesitantly. arguing for higher prices. >> right. because you haven't been. you do use it hesitantly. >> we've argued prices should be higher. where i've been wrong is in subscribing to the new normal argument most the crisis. we had argued for equity appreciation somewhere below historical averages of let's say 5% to 6% or so and actually the annualized appreciation has been a little north of 8%. so we've had a pretty good expansion here, while the economy is mired in the new normal, the stock market is most certainly not. >> i don't know, we've got a claims number coming at exactly 7:30 which means we have to do stuff right now. so thanks, dan. scott, you'll be with us for the rest of the show. >> when we come back, bridgewater associates founder and cio ray dalio speaks exclusive to "squawk box" from davos. we're going to find out where the world's largest hedge fund is putting its money to work. at 1:45, the aflac duck was brought in

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watch shares of netflix at the open this morning. they posted a profit of 13 cents air share. way better than what analysts were looking for. they were expecting a loss. revenue also beat estimates coming in at $940 million. netflix also added 2.1 million more u.s. subscribers for a total of $27.2 million. reed hastings spoke with julia boorstin specifically about future growth. >> we're continuing to gain momentum, to gain members and to gain content. but ultimately what i think will happen is hulu will do its own exclusives, amazon will do its own original exclusives, and that we three will be like different channels, like abc,

cbs, and nbc, or like showtime and hbo. and there will be a lot of room for us all to succeed, each doing our own content. >> netflix shares jumping more than 30% on the news and at a 52-week high. the stock is below its all-time hit back in 2001. >> julia boorstin is going to join us a little later in the show. she'll have more of our interview with reed hastings of netfl netflix. if you take a look at the futures you will see a little bit of a mixed picture. dow futures up just about 11 points. s&p down by two and the nasdaq down by over 30. still to come, he runs the nation's largest hedge fund. find out where ray dalio is putting money to work for his clients. dalio in davos. and only on "squawk box."

welcome back to "squawk box," everyone. we've been talking about apple shares this morning. why don't we take a look after that earnings report forecast that clearly disappointed the street. apple stock has tumbled by more than a third from that 705 dollar high that it achieved back in september. its earnings per share did beat

the street. revenue came in just slightly below what was expected. but it was the guidance that really spooked people on wall street for a long time now. apple has given this very conservative guidance. now they say they're going to try and be more realistic, giving you a range of where they really think things are going to be. you can see in the premarket that stock is down by $46. a drop of 9%. we are also just an hour away from the latest figures on initial jobless claims. last week see you asay five-year low of 335,000 claims. economists are expecting a jump to 360,000 this time around. also out this morning the index of leading economic indicators that comes out at 10:00 eastern time and it is expected to show a rise 0.4% for december. joe? >> business leaders. hedge fund titans. politicians. expert cross-country skiers that are also anchors are gathered at the world economic forum in davos to discuss issues affecting the global economy. from trade to investment ideas.

and that's where we find our andrew ross sorkin. i gave you a little plug there, andrew. >> thank you, joe. i appreciate that. >> you're welcome. we hoped you'd be wearing that hat for the dalio interview. just to throw us off. but i see you're not. >> i'll break out the hat in the next hour. in the meantime, we do have a big interview. ray dalio is here. founder of bridgewater, $130 billion you manage. you were saying before you started with $5 million? >> yeah. >> $5 million and a two bedroom apartment. >> well the world bank gave me $5 million in 1985. that's when i started. >> did you ever think $5 million was going to turn into $100 billion? >> i never thought much about it. just like playing the game. >> the other thing we were talking about before we came on was apple and i was talking about the apple stock and how you think about it. you said i don't really think about apple as a company. you think about it in a very different way in the sort of economic machine theory.

how do you look at something like that? >> well, i think everything -- i think if everything is working like a machine, that the economy works like a machine. the markets work like a machine. there are cause/effect relationships. i think we don't talk enough about how the machine works. so when we're talking about in interviews like this you know i think okay, what are we going to do, talk about what's the next hot tip? >> right. >> what's it going to do for an individual? >> right >> you take that and walk away and invest on it? supposing i change my mind tomorrow. >> right. >> the economic machine or the markets basically are operating in a consistent way. and the outcomes that we have are just a function of understanding that. so i hope that we'll talk about how does the economic machine work. >> right. >> where are we in the economy? how does the markets work? >> right. >> how do you develop a strategy. these are the important things. and then i could tell you what i think in that context. >> so, in that context, let's talk about it, then. how do you think about -- when you talk about the economic machine, what is that, exactly? >> okay.

so everything is a transaction, right? every good service or financial asset, somebody's buying. >> right. >> and they buy with money, or they buy with credit. and so you go in to a store and you buy a suit, you buy it with money or you buy with credit. credit is promised to deliver money. you and i can make up credit. if i say, listen, you can have the suit and you just pay me back later, that will calculate as gnp or a sale but yet there's no payment made. >> right. >> so as a result, credit grows a lot faster than money. and credit grows faster than income. and when credit grows faster than income, when debt grows faster than income, that can't go on for long. >> right. >> at some point, you can't service, because it's promised to deliver money. when that money can't -- you can't come out, you have a deleveraging. >> right. >> so what happened in 2007 was they ran a bubble. we had credit growing much faster than money. than money or income. >> right. >> and we had that bubble. and so now we're going through

an adjustment. and let me explain that adjustment, if i may. >> please. >> okay. so, in a deleveraging, and deleveragings have happened throughout time, right? it just didn't happen in our lifetime before. but it happened in japan. it happened in the '30s. happened in latin america. they happen all the time. how do they work? too much debt relative to income. so there are four things you can do. all of them are the same. you can either transfer wealth from the haves and the have-nots so germany can help spain. you can do that. or you can write down debts. because if there's too much debt you have to reduce it. so you can write it down. but the problem with writing it down is one man's debt is another man's assets. so you write down assets. and it feeds on itself and it has a problem. it causes pain. the other way you -- the third way you can deal with it, is that you can spend less. so i'll borrow less. austerity. and we go through austerity. and the fourth way you can deal with it is you can print money. so central banks can come and they can give money to spaniards

who may not be able to pay the dealt, and that helps them do that. so there are always those four ways that happen. in all deleveraging they all happen. so what we've gone through, the bubble was obvious, because it couldn't extend -- you can't raise debt relative to income and the leveraging couldn't continue. and the deleveraging that was taking place had to happen in those four ways. it has largely happened. >> it's happened already. >> it's happened already. >> you think it's done? >> no, let me explain what it is. >> okay. >> okay. >> that, the capacity of lenders to lend, to meet the borrowing requirements, has largely been adjusted. so, spain is borrowing, has fallen. >> right. >> italy's borrowing has fallen. those borrowings have collapsed. >> mm-hmm. >> with that, is, of course, the collapse of their economies. that's what the depression is.

you have to spend less, because you have less ability to borrow. >> right. >> so that causes a collapse in those economies. it was still, even with that, not enough money to service the debt. so, i use spain as an example because it's representative. if you take spain, but the ecb came in, and put in $450 billion of money. they put in about 350 to the spanish banks. >> was that the right thing to do? >> that was the right thing to do. the policy so far. there was a gap. an unreconcilable gap. an unbridgeable funding gap. >> right. >> okay. that -- so now what we have is a situation where the bow rowing needs and the debt rollover needs and the borrowing are approximately in line, and a cushion has been created, the ecb took over filled the gap

where normally the premarket does and it fills it. and that has now moved it along to a different condition. we're going to have a depression -- >> we're having a depression. >> in europe. spain, we call this the lost decade it doesn't mean you can go back and spend like you did before when you get past it. it means that the level of spending is down to the level of income. >> and how long -- you say last decade. you talk about the economic machine, and history. but part of the challenge for any investor trying to understand what to do is the timing element, right? we all know what the history may repeat itself. the question is when it's going to repeat itself. we don't always know that piece of it. >> so the way i look at it is first of all, there's economics of the cause effect, and so, this will be a long problem that now i'll talk the economics and i'll talk about the markets. independently. >> okay. >> but they're connected. the economics means there will

be a long period of adjustment and what will happen most importantly is productivity, does europe work hard, do the things that are necessary to raise its living standards because it can't be on money, and there will be a social challenge, social, political challenge of ten years or so, maybe it's 15 years. japan has made it go on for longer. >> right. >> the fundamental thing that they need to do most is to make sure that the nominal interest rate is at or below the nominal growth rate. and i won't get technical. but otherwise, what you're going to have is the debt compounding at a rate which is faster than the economy is growing. so, anyway, that picture -- there was a tremendous change, but it will be a terrible economy. >> right. >> because the balance is, the preventing of chaos, we came very close to having chaos. right at the edge of it. because there was not a backstop. we got past that point. so now as we move forward, we can -- that can be managed, and

it's going to be very difficult and very painful, as far as the markets go, now, the question in the markets is, how do events transpire relative to what's discounted. right? >> right. >> so, everybody -- this is the thing, too many investors are reactive decisionmakers. if something has gone up, they say, oh, that's a good investment. they don't say that's more expensive. and so it's the most common mistake in investing. you have to look ahead and say, what is the transaction? what will be determining the buyer and seller? currently what we have is a lot of money is in cash, and cash is a bad thing. and it's not natural that it's cash because the central banks printed a lot of money so they put a lot of cash. that's what japan is doing, too, because it needs to do that. so it produces a lot of cash within the system. and in addition, because you have the risks, people want to be safe. >> right. >> so they put their money in cash. and there's a lot of cash -- >> sounds like you're saying

that's a mistake, though. >> well, it's a natural consequence, and what will happen is the next big moves in the markets, and the next big moves in the economy, will be based on how the cash moves. because that's a bad investment. it has a negative real return. >> right. >> it has a return that's substantially lower than the negative -- than the economy's growth rate. and at the same time, we're in a situation where risks are being reduced. so the fear, the desire, to hold that cash is reduced. you can go out on the risk spectrum, because they're reduced for the reasons we're talking about. and at the same time, if you're an investor, you can start to move out of the cash, because you're missing out on returns because it's lousy. as that happens, i think 2013 is likely to be a transition year. okay? where that cash, large amounts of cash existed that way. that will start to change. >> change in what way? >> it will also move -- >> move where? >> okay, it will move to stuff.

it will move to all sorts of stuff. it will move to goods, services and financial assets. so, that will include most goods, services and financial assets. people will spend more with the cash. they will -- and that will help the economy. it will move into equities. it will move into gold. it will move into -- it will move. >> right. >> into out along that curve. as that happens, what happens is, it makes the federal reserve's concerns change. because by putting the cash in they've lessened the risks. as the risks have lessened and that movement starts to move then the tilt starts to change. that's probably something that won't happen immediately. this is like a classic transition year, i think. and then as you get later into the year, i think that we're going to see more of that. >> okay. i apologize for interrupting. joe kernen is back in the studio. he has a question.

economic lesson. >> i get it. no, i get it. and ray basically i'm looking at some of his notes that we have, as the transition year goes on towards the end. a 4r09 of this cash and a lot of money that shouldn't be in the bond market anymore starts moving out in equities, gold, khadties and that makes a lot of sense. ray, of the four things i think that the central bankers around the world really did a lot of heavy lifting, and i would have thought that gold would have continued to move. and i was wondering how you explain that. i guess it moved from 200 to 1800. so, it moved in anticipation of what we finally saw. but i would imagine you think that it still got more room to grow or how do you explain it for the last year and a half that's really been, you know, acquiescent? >> so i just want to emphasize that the way that i look at any market is to look at the buyers and the sellers. and to understand, you know, sort of who's buying and who's selling and what are the motivations behind that.

and so in each one of those cases, and i think if i was to get in to that a little bit much i would actually be dealing with sort of some confidential information. i think the important thing here to understand is that gold just generally is something that large large buyers, those with lots of portfolios would like to accumulate over a very long time, very slowly. whoops. >> it's okay. keep going. we'll talk. >> and and built that -- build diverse indication because we're in a new era in terms of which is the currency. what are we -- we're in a new world. what is money? and so there's a need to diversify that. however, gold is a very small market by comparison to that. and it's not a big, effective, you can't diversify it. so i think the behavior of gold makes, you know, complete sense,

as does the behavior of equities and so on. i don't want to get too much into any one asset class, or what i think about them. i think the important thing here, if i'm an investor, let's go back to the investor, is the most important thing is that you can have is a good, strategic asset allocation mix. in other words you're not going to win by sort of trying to get what the next tip is and what's going to be good and what's going to be bad. that's -- you're definitely going to lose. so what the most investor needs to do is to have a balanced structured portfolio. a portfolio that does well in different environments. so much of the driver of many asset class returns is based on how events actually transpire relative to expectations. so there's a certain discounted growth rate in equities. there's a certain discounted growth rate, certain assets. you can look at what's priced in. and then what happens is, you need to have environments a

quarter of your portfolio, in assets that do well, when growth is faster than expected. or, a quarter when it's slower than expected. a quarter when inflation is higher than expected and a quarter when inflation is lower than expected. so you need to create a good structured portfolio, then you can make your bets. but this is a whole conversation on how to invest. >> here's a question just about bets. you know, you're making the argument, and explaining the need to have a diversified portfolio. but most people have diversified portfolio follow the market. meaning, whatever the s&p 500 is ultimately you're going to be up or down, somewhere around there. you, and some of your peers consistently outperform the market. and you do that, i assume, by making bets. >> we break it into two parts. we have two basic portfolios. there is the strategic asset allocation mix. which we call all weather and

that just hassing to to do with bets. it has to do with how to make all the assets the same risk parity. call risk parity. the problem is, when people try to diversify, and they own equities and equities has a volatility. >> right. >> that's large. or they own assets that do well when the economy does well and doly when the economy does badly they have a concentration of their risk in some assets. >> right. >> they need to have. they need to change the portfolio. they need to by longer duration bonds or bring up so that bonds and commodities and pieces have comparable impacts so that whatever happens in the economy will then have a balancing effect. because the one thing you can be most confident is that asset classes on average will outperform cash. >> okay. >> so if you have -- that's a strategic asset allocation. >> up 4u78. >> that's what the all-weather piece is. then there's the bets. the bets are zero sum. right?

in order for you to beat me in the game, you're going to have -- it's like poker. it's a zpoer sum game. i have -- we have 1500 people that work at bridgewater. we spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research and so on. we've been doing this for 37 years. and we don't know that we're going to win. in other words we work that. we have to have diversified bets. we have a lot of diversified bets and so on. so it's very important for most people to know when not to make a bet. because if you're going to come to the poker table, you're going to have to beat me and you're going to have to beat those who take money so the nature of investing is that a very small percentage of the people take money, essentially, in that poker game, away from other people. >> right. >> who don't know when prices go up, whether that means it's a good investment or if it's a more expensive investment. >> we're going to slip in a quick break. i'm going to send it back to joe and we'll come back and continue the conversation. >> thanks, andrew. we'll be right back with more from ray dalio. and in the next hour we have dow chemical chairman and ceo andrew

liveris and peter loescher is going to join us from davos to talk about global economy, business innovation and everything siemens does. make sure you logon to facebook after the show. andrew will be hosting office hours starting around 9:00 a.p. check out happenle ahead of the market open. the company reported results late yesterday that were disappointing for a lot of different reasons. the stock's down almost 50 points. 45 now. we will talk expectations and stocks to watch when we return.

we're back live here in davos, switzerland at the world economic forum and we're speaking exclusively with ray dalio, founder of bridgewater associated and we're thrilled to have you. you rarely do this so we're happy to have the education. one of the questions that came up in my mind while you were speaking in the last segment was politics. and a lot of the conversation we have here at the world economic forum is about politics. how is an investor do you put that in to your economic machine, if you will, you know, when it comes to this debt ceiling issue, or it comes to who's going to be elected, or health care issues or what have you. how is that -- how do you put that in to your investing hat? >> well, everything is a transaction, and it won't have an effect on prices, in any event, unless it has an effect on a transaction. so what i do is i know who the buyers and the sellers are.

and then by thinking that through, i think how will it have an effect on transactions. far more important than, over the long term, the leader of a country will have some effect on the whole overall health of the economy. but even -- they can't even res. they're, you know, it's a very difficult challenge. the whole political system. you could be president of the united states and it doesn't mean you can change policy. then, if policy changes, it has to basically change the things that produce -- have an effect on productivity. it's something that's peripheral largely. like, for example, a bigger issue is how does financial transactions work such as if you lower interest rate, and you have nothing on a money market fund. >> right. >> and you can't do that -- >> which is what we got now. >> which is what you got now. what happens? how is there then the trans -- where does the money go? how does somebody earn a return? how do financial intermediaries

earn returns and so on as it affects transactions. those things are far more important really in terms of an effect in longer-term there are certain basic things that determine the health of an economy, and policy can have an effect. there are also certain points in time that it's very critical. mario draghi and the ecb and how it handled monetary policy at a particular moment in time was critically important. so to try to stay on top of that and not only partially anticipate it, but to know when a change occurs, how to properly excerpt it and what does that mean in terms of the knock-on effect because everything is cause/effect relationships and causes happen before effects. and if you understand the cause/effect relationship, that's what it's all about. >> scott sperling who runs t.h. lee is back in the studio. >> hi, ray, how are you? you've done this spectacular job at being able to call macro trends very well, and sometimes very aggressively.

one of the things that is -- we've noted over the last, particularly few months, is the use of judicious amounts of leverage on bond portfolios to try to emulate equity-like returns. i think risk parity is what they call it. and you've done a great job with that sort of thing. ist -- is that a mechanic or is that an indication of direction of attractiveness, relative attractiveness, of fixed income to the equity market? >> a mechanical thing. the problem of let's say a stock and a bond portfolio, if you put 50% of your money in stocks and 50% of your money in bonds, the problem is, you have about 80% of your risk in stocks, and about 20% of your risks in bonds. and so you don't have diversification. but if you just imagine that you

had a long duration bond portfolio or a bond portfolio had about the same volatility of stocks and you went through the financial crisis, most of the decline in your portfolio would have been protected. because the stocks would have gone up in value by an amount that would have had an impact that would have offset the other. so in structuring a very good plel yo, you have to have comparable basically comparable amounts of risk in that. equities is misleading. when you think you take a treasury bond and you leverage it two to one, realize that the average company in the s&p 500 is leveraged two to one. in other words there's as much debt as there is equity in the company. if there was a law that said that companies could not leverage, then the return of equities and the return and the volatility of equities would be quite like that of bonds. so it tends to be that the one thing we're most confident about is that asset classes over a

period of time will outperform cash. that has to be, otherwise we don't have capitalism. and it also has to be compensation. so, it's to get that balance that you need to do that. >> ray, we're going to have to go. but just final question. given the mood here in the world economic forum, your sense, looking out over the next two years, jamie diamond was on yesterday, said he is very bullish. virtually everybody i've talked to seems very bullish. i know you talk about a transition and it sounds like that's what you're suggesting but to the extent the audience is trying to understand your sense of where things are going, where are we right now? >> so, i think it depends where -- when you enter the question, where are we right now depends where is. if you're in europe, it means one thing. if you're in the united states, it means something else. if you're in china, it means something else. and it sounds to me like we don't have enough time to cover those. i would say if i was to make a big generalization, europe will be in -- their economy will be terrible. and we will have a gradual

restructuring and that will go on for awhile and it will be bad. in the united states, i think you're going to have this shifting to taking on the more risk. in japan, we are reliquefying the printing of money to get out of that problem and it's going to be more liquidity brought in. and in china, it's bouncing back and they have to deal with the fact that debt maybe is growing faster than income. >> right. >> and that's an issue. so we are in a different kind of world. we will not -- so i'm going on too long. that's the best i can do in a time. >> a minute you just told us a lot. so thank you for that and thank you for this interview. we appreciate it very much. have a fun time at the world economic forum. back to joe and becky back in the studio. >> andrew, thank you. thank you, ray dalio. that was great. still taking notes writing everything down. when we come back we do have some breaking news. jobless claims numbers that could move the markets. >> hey, becky, joe, when we return, we've got andrew liverus the ceo of dow chemical, friend

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and ceo andrew liveris and peter loscher, president and ceo of siemens. >> plus breaking economic news. the closely watched weekly jobless claim is set to hit the tape. >> more "squawk" from davos when i finish grooming this mountain. let's hit it. >> welcome back to "squawk box" here on cnbc, first in business worldwide. i'm joe kernen along with becky quick. andrew ross sorkin is at the world economic forum in a place with a lot of snow, davos, switzerland. first with andrew liveris, who is the chairman and ceo of dow chemical obviously. then with peter loscher, ceo of siemens. our guest host has been scott

sperling, copresident of thl partners. we'll have more from him still ahead. becky has headlines first. >> earnings numbers, apple coming out with some disappointing quarterly results. investors are punishing the stock today. take a look at some of the numbers from the company it earned 13/81 and that beat the streets aexpectation. $13.47 is what they were expecting. revenue came in slightly loiter than the 54.73 billion. street expected. but listen to this, apple sold 47.8 million iphones for the quarter. that was a record. some on the street wanted to see a number that was a little closer to 50 million or even higher. ipad sales were 22.9 million. and that's up from just 15.4 million a year ago. and another key statistic, apple has 137 billion in cash. it was the guidance that the company offered that concerned the street. they say now that they'll be giving more realistic numbers and keep things in a range rather than conservative guidance to this point. earlier today we spoke to analyst daniel ernst from hudson square research.

>> it's still a great company. still growing, still gaining relative share. but i think there's this sort of back to earth, you know, we're exiting the stratosphere and coming back to a more normalized, what i can think of as the new normal for apple is that they're growing at a good rate. just not a fantastic rate. >> as we mentioned, the stock is taking a hit. in fact, it's down at this point by 8.8%. that's $45 drop to $468.75. also in earnings news, this morning we've had dow component 3m coming out with earnings of $1.14 a share. that was in line with what the street was expecting. revenue $7.4 billion was higher than exated. . 3m is a new all-time high for that stock. it was sitting yesterday at $99 and change at an all-time high during the course of the day. this is a new all-time high today. sit a group chief executive says that the bank has the right strategy to generate future growth. speaking at the world economic forum in davos, he tells cnbc

that several years of revamping efforts are beginning to pay off. >> we've, over the last three or four years simplified the company a lot. we've become smaller. we've become simpler. we're really focused around our core lines of business. >> he took over as ceo in october after the abrupt resignation of former chief vikram pandit. let's take a look at the broader markets. u.s. equity futures are looking slightly higher, up just over 8.5 points. s&p futures down by just over 2 points. and the nasdaq is a little weaker down by 32 points. remember it has been a strong streak of winning days for the dow. nine out of the last ten sessions it's been up. s&p has been up for the last six sessions in a row. if you watch what happened overseas in asia, the nikkei was higher. it was up by about 1.25%. the shanghai and the hang seng composites were slightly lower. and in europe this morning, you can see some very similar trading as to what's happening here. mixed numbers. ftse up slightly. with german dax down slightly.

and france basically flat-lined. >> let's get back to andrew in davos with other special guest. andrew? >> hey, thanks, joe. we have andrew liveris, friend of "squawk" right here. ceo of dow chemical, and this year, the co-chair of the world economic forum. >> thank you, andrew. nice to be with you. >> it's very good to be with you. give us a sense, if you will, and we never know whether it's a good indicator or a contra indicator what the mood is here but you are talking to virtually everybody around town. how do you think it feels right now? >> i really am actually very happy that we're physically in the center of europe, because what you're getting is a lot of europe positive sentiment from the europeans. which, frankly, inbound i would not have expected. now, it's a relative positive so i don't want you jumping through to the bull case but people are feeling much better about our european bottom, and the potential signs of a europe that's above zero percent growth which is phenomenal. >> are you seeing that in your business? >> not yet, no. >> so you think this is just a little -- >> it may be buzz.

but you ask me what am i seeing at the meeting. look, the emerging world is still very strong. the africans are here in force. russia is feeling very bullish. china is not here a lot but there's good chinese noise and we're seeing good chinese stuff in our business. but, no, the european noise is positive. >> what do you make, i don't know if you've been following what's going on in the uk, david cameron speaking this morning. does that have any impact on your business? >> it does in a way. because u.s./eu trade is the one trade agreement that the u.s. has not done. that the europeans desperately need to get done. >> right. so the uk being part of that yes or no i would venture to say our government is going to have a lot to stay about the uk staying part of the eu i think as has been indicated. >> did you catch any of the comments about tax avoidance, sort of global tax avoidance issue? >> no, i did not. i'll stay quiet on that one. >> the other big topic here, energy. >> yes. >> and in particular, the u.s. energy situation, shale, fracking, et cetera, you bullish, you bearish, where do

you think we really are? i mean people have prognosticated for now awhile that we were going to get there but doesn't seem like we're there. >> andrew, i think it is the bull case for the world. so to answer your question, i'm billish. and i think it's a game changer. and i think it is probably the story of global economic recovery if handled right. and frankly, the beneficiaries of that will be the u.s. consumer. u.s. jobs. i mean just in the downstream value added industries which i'm a part of $96 billion of investment already announced. 5 million new jobs over the next five years. huge value adder to a low-cost energy base. >> i don't know if you saw the president's inauguration speech. >> i caught part of it. >> do you feel that this administration, and forget about the administration, that washington writ large is going to be supportive and actually put in place policy that's going to allow this to happen on the energy front? >> i think you know me well enough as does everyone in squawk that i've been on the podium on energy policy for seven or eight years or my ceo.

i haven't seen it yet. president, when married with climate change which i think is a very big topic, energy and climate change together. i think it would be the topic that if i was president, i'd go after which is a win/win. less carbon intensity and more jobs seems to go well politically. >> debt ceiling and the issues that we're confronting ahead of us? we just got through our last fiscal cliff. >> one dark cloud that sits above the u.s. economy. and it's easy within our -- >> is it a real cloud, though? some of the comments you hear from ceos now said we're just going to have to get used to all of these cliffs, and we're going to have to just keep going and make just forget about what's going on in washington. is that -- >> that's the reality case which i live in. i live in that world, reality. and the reality is we're moving on anyway. but, of course, uncertainty in the consumer is what drives us all. and the consumer needs to see some degree of political certainty, and let's hope that this is not a kick the can down the road, but a real deal will

emerge. we have to solve this and tax reform, the two big policy items above and beyond energy. >> you think that's going to happen? >> let me put it this way, i'm bullish but there's a better case of that happening in the second term than in the first term. >> okay. final question, it has nothing to do with anything, except apparently the woman that i thought looked like angela merkel on the airplane over here works for you? >> yes. carol williams. >> who is she? >> evp of operations. it's been an inside dow joke a long time. i'm so glad you got to experience. >> does everybody think that she looks like her? >> yes, sir. >> do people walk up to her? >> yes, spirp here. you're not alone. >> thank you. i feel -- i feel a lot better. andrew liveris, everybody. joe and becky, back to you guys. >> yeah, okay. we need a picture. you could get -- andrew -- >> you know what? we'll get you a picture. we'll get you a picture. so i mean -- yeah. >> awesome. >> people think that we're making this up. she really does look like her. >> it's a lookalike. >> a doppelganger.

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welcome back to "squawk box." futures right now indicated up about 10 points. we are also watching the shares of netflix today. it won't make up for what's happening with apple, obviously. but the video streaming service posted a profit of 13 cents a share. analysts were looking for a loss of 13 cents a share. either the company did really well or analysts are clueless about this stock. revenue also beat estimates coming in at $945 million. netflix also added 2.1 million u.s. subscribers.

and now there are 27.2 million, which is -- >> that's always been the big issue. get enough subscribers in there. if you start thinking about the portion of the u.s. population. >> netflix shares jumping more than 40% and back to a 52-week high or at a 52-week high. i don't know what that means, back to a 52-week high. wouldn't be a new high if it was back to that level, right? >> unless it had been sitting around there. >> that doesn't make -- makes no sense. unless you want to speak english. but the stock is still well below its all-time high. that was hit back in 2011, and julia boorstin will bring us more of her exclusive interview with netflix ceo reed hastings later this hour. >> right now let's get more from our guest host scott sperling of thl partners. we've been talking about some of the things you heard here this morning. what you talked to ray dalio about. what kind of strikes you as the big things you've taken away from some of these things today. >> number one, i think that there have been a lot of uncertainties that have been redressed. and i think people are feeling bitter about that.

europe isn't going to collapse. it has its -- more than its fair share of problems. i'm not sure they're solving some of the longer-term ones. at least the imminent threat of a collapse is no longer there. >> which is hard to understand. >> when you look at growth rates across the eurozone you have to be concerned about that. at least it's not going to be a crisis a la 2008. >> they can't service their debt or pay it off. >> they can keep on flinting money and hope at some point in the future it gets better. that is better for people than what they thought might have happened. so that's a plus. >> but the printing money itself. >> is long-term worrisome. if you believe that the central banks, federal reserve and european central banks can get that money back at the appropriate point out hurting the economy then you're not so worried. i think most people are skeptical that it will be quite as easy as that. so that's an issue. n the united states, we have lots of great things going on.

not the least of which is the ability to have a return to lower cost manufacturing, because of low energy prices. >> right. >> and that is a fundamental change that nobody anticipated 36 months ago. and it is enormously positive for us. and i think when you combine that with the entrepreneurial spirit that you see continue to permeate the entire economy, you have to be optimistic. on the other hand, washington continues to do everything that it can to recreate uncertainties, even ones that we thought were put aside, and not to solve some of the longer-term problems or necessarily do much on the near-term problems, so you have to be worried about that. >> you don't think for everyone in that, too, because you sound like you're saying, i mean, it's the white house and congress. >> it's the white house and congress. this is -- >> both? >> there's no one person to blame. >> would you like congress to go along with everything obama wants to do? do you think that would help us? >> you know, i think many of us

share the president's objectives to help people. we go about it very different ways. >> exactly. >> so -- >> you don't want to be counterproductive. 2% growth doesn't help anyone. >> right. and we can't solve the longer terl problems without significant economic growth. every 100 basis points. every 1% change in gdp over ten years is $3 trillion to $4 trillion impact on our deficit. we're not talking about any action that has a $3 trillion to $4 trillion over the next ten years. >> right. >> so you have to have that in ort to solve these problems. >> i think speeches don't help people. it's like, i think about food stamps. and we want to provide the basic level of what people need. >> right. >> but growing the number of people that need government assistance is the wrong way to do it. >> it's not sustainable. >> and there are people that want to work. people that want to take care of themselves and just being a government that is empathetic to the needs of all these people we're creating that need us, it's not -- >> people --

>> people want jobs. they want to work. >> people want jobs. >> americans want to work. >> just focusing on helping the people that don't have jobs doesn't help. >> that's exactly right. and i'm afraid of a couple of things. number one, we've been desensitized. we've run trillion dollar annual deficits. we used to go crazy if it was 100 billion or 150 billion deficit. so we need to get back to a point where we are outraged by that mismatch between what we spend and what we take in. >> we should be outraged by when you say shouldish growth, that that's okay. because that's not okay. >> that holds down growth. that holds down the ability to help these people, get them jobs and solve these problems. the people who've been hurt the worst in the last four years are the ones who most need the jobs. >> they talk about helping the most. >> so you have to be concerned about that. again on the optimistic side, we have an engine here that nobody else in the world, i believe, has. >> happens in spite of all this. you think fracking happened because of the government? >> right.

>> you think that the move to natural gas happened -- we were playing around with wind mills and solar. >> which would actually disadvantage us relative to the rest of the world and not solve the problems. we do need long-term other forms of energy. and we should invest in basic research to try to make those types of technologies more cost competitive. what we probably shouldn't do is spend tens of billions of dollars building plans for things that are inherently inefficient, or cost disadvantage. >> right. >> darp sachlt a great example of a government program that has worked spectacularly well. their budget is in the low billions of dollars and they do fundamental research that can then be exploited by the private sector. and that's probably a better model. >> exactly. >> we're going to continue this conversation with scott sperling. he's our guest host today. in the meantime the squawk ceo call on davos continues. let's get back to andrew. he has another special guest. andrew? >> thank you, becky. i'm here with peter loscher, ceo

of siemens. most valuable company in germany. the second most valuable is s.a.p.? >> that's correct. >> it goes back and forth? >> absolutely. >> let's talk about the economy but let's also talk about what's going on here. in particular, david cameron's comments about what's happening in the uk, and what that might ultimately mean to the eurozone. there, ultimately, your business. how are you thinking about this right now? >> andrew, i think it's important to understand, when you make long-term industrial infrastructure, investments, that you need long-term stable macro economic environments. and the key question that i would ask myself is should i be worried about it. >> and should you, are you? >> and this is where we need to get the answer, a minimum what it will do i think it will impact investment sentiment. and the rest we will see. >> but that's real? you're not going to change anything as a result of this? >> i'm just asking the question. >> you're -- >> the uk is a very important market for us. we are one of the biggest industrial employers in the uk already.

but it is key thing in terms of a new industrial investment decisions. that you need long-term stable environments. because when we look into plants or other investments we look out 10, 15 years. >> sounds like you're saying it was a mistake to make this speech. >> i'm not saying anything. you're asking me how do i believe investment positions could be affected. >> the other topic we've been talking about has been energy and energy policy in the united states. and it was making me think given the possibility of fracking and shale and everything else going on, does that give you any sense that you would make additional investments in the united states? >> andrew, already done. i think what we've seen in the united states is a great example that the energy direction of the united states is really competitiveness agenda. we see reindustrialization initiatives already happening. chemicals are coming back to the u.s. we will see further industrial build-out coming back to the united states. for us in twofolds it's a great

growth business opportunities, for big and most modern gas turbine plant which we put into charlotte, north carolina. so we are ready there to participate in the energy agenda, of course, and i think it will be a broader business opportunities for industrial automation for our industrial businesses, so i'm a firm believer that this is really a competitiveness agenda, and siemens is extremely well positions with more than 60,000 people already in the united states, to really benefit from it. >> real quick, angela merkel is going to be speaking in about i think in an hour if not less than now. i was at a dinner last night and the comment was made by a ceo that angela merkel has been more important in terms of keeping this -- the problems in europe from turning into a full blown crisis than any mario draghi. do you buy that? you talk to her all the time. >> i think she's an extremely important political figure. she's playing a very, very important role in this context. and both elements are very important. the decisions in july, for

example, was a very important politicalization. obviously angela merkel is really, as an absolutely pro european political leader she plays a key political role. but mario at the same time has made an extremely important decision last august, stabilizing the financial markets. so for me both of them are very important key figures in europe. >> okay. peter we're going to leave it there. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you very much. great to be here. >> have a great davos. >> andrew, thank you. we'll see you in just a little bit. when we come back, netflix ceo reed hastings on the online streaming business. and we'll get weekly jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. eastern. economists expect claims to jump by 35,000 from last week's five-year low to a total of 360,000. "squawk" will be right back. [ male announcer ] you're not the type of person who sets goals and only hopes to achieve them. so you'll be happy to know that when it comes to your investment goals, northern trust uses award-winning expertise to lead you through an interactive investment process.

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welcome back to "squawk box." we're just seconds away from weekly jobless claims. u.s. equity futures are up about 14 points right now. and jim euro, this is a man that has a six-letter last name and only one consonant. >> it's 82% vowels. >> that is so weird. standing by us at cme in chicago. steve liesman is going to be in

davos, joining us, where he's been -- he had to go to switzerland to figure out the blackberry 10. jim your-you've got the numbers for us? >> no, i don't have the numbers. i'll give you the market reaction. >> honestly? >> all right we're going to put them up at the bottom of the screen. that's going well, so we don't have -- we don't have rick santelliish- >> i thought rick was going to give the numbers. >> rick santelli would normally give the numbers. >> wow. 330. >> 330 is initial jobless claims. >> that's huge. >> yeah, that's a good number. okay and this is interesting, in that over the last -- >> that's amazing. >> we've had several different numbers that weren't that good. so this is a big thing. but, the question we have to ask your offs is, the chairman said he wants to see substantial gains in the labor market before they're going to take the foot off the pedal. so this isn't enough to bring us there yet. but this is not a bad numbers.

now you take into affect in asia we have stock market tailwinds, the fact they're devaluing the yen and china is providing stimulus, and at a decent pmi so this is not bad. the chart is not giving us any reason to sell the stock market yet, either, except for the fact that it might be a little long in the tooth. >> liesman, i know you're in another country, but, it was supposed to go back up. yeah. >> they were predicting 360, joe. >> i know. >> what could cause this? >> people either getting jobs and/or not being fired. that would result in the decline in jobless claims. and maybe -- what we know is that business seemed to respond to all the uncertainties surrounding the debt ceiling. by cutting back on capital investment, and not firing people. there was a lot of anecdotal evidence over that, that they were waiting this out. that maybe they thought this time around it was more bluff and bluster than reality that we'd hit the debt ceiling. and that seems to have paid off.

people don't -- employers don't like to fire employees. not only because of, you know, being gentle human beings but because it's costly for them to do that. they tried to hold on. what we seemed to be seeing here right now is i held my exuberance last week because i thought it was a one-off seasonal adjustment thing and you do have to be careful in the month of january, as people come off the rolls because of the seasonal hiring. and there's still some reason for skepticism. but staying down at this level for a second week, joe, we've always said 350 was the bottom of the range, and we're putting in a new bottom down there this 330 that you've got to think about. probably payrolls up near 200,000 or above and maybe a faster decline in unemployment than has been factored into the market right now. >> steve, one question for you. you still think we're miles away from the substantial gains that the fed is looking for to start talking about removing stimulus, don't you?

>> i don't think it's miles, i really don't. my predictions for 2013 has us nudging just below 7% on the unemployment rate this year with a big asterisk as to how we get there? do we get there because of climate participation rate? so i think it's possible that we hit that 7% threshold, which all i have right now is what jim from st. louis told me which is that would be a place where the federal reserve would probably stop qe. i think there's a qe examination coming at the fed, a qe examination coming in the markets probably around june when we're getting ready to maybe take a vacation or two. and try to figure out is the fed going to continue buying assets this year. we have the fed survey in the field to try to figure out what the expectation is for the year. the prior survey had shown a trillion dollars which is basically $85 billion a month. and i'm interested after these numbers as to whether or not that continues. the more important question is

whether iuorio is something i can use in scrabble. >> if you can fit it in you can win. i think. >> no, you can't use names. >> if i can use a euro, man. >> i know, it's bizarre. i don't know who came up with it, man. so your exuberance last week was irrational steve, that's basically what you're saying. you're willing to go with a two-week number to start changing your mind on what the jobless market looks like? >> i think it's time to think about there being a real job i don't know what the unauthored number was. joe i got to tell you that here in davos aim starting to hear some decent things. the first thing i have to say is people are talking about an end to the financial panic largely brought on as a result of the ecb acting more like the federal reserve and creating essentially an infinite backstop to the currency. doesn't mean the crisis is over. doesn't mean problems are over. but i'm hearing a lot of things like maybe europe has to deal with a bad economic problem,

depression is what dalio said, others call it a recession. not having to deal with financial panic is a major step forward. i'm hearing a lot of what dalio also told us about the possibility of risk in the united states, that cash is going to find a home here. i'm hearing fairly optimistic things here about the outlook especial his for the united states. a chinese official said everybody's waiting for the soft landing. we had the soft landing. we're on the way back up now and i talked to a couple other folks who agreed with that conclusion. maybe some things coming together on the positive side. >> your accommodations pretty sport an over there, too, steve? >> yeah, joe, i don't want to talk about my accommodations. >> i know. but there's alcohol, which sort of that's really all, you know, as far as having a good time, right, you're okay there? >> well, yeah, of course it makes it hard to find the accommodations that are kind of in a remote place. but i have to tell you, that i've stayed in my day in enough

interest hotels in russia and my accommodations kind of rival that. >> right. and over we know why vodka is the biggest, you know, the biggest consumption item in russia. anyway, iuorio. >> i'm ready for an upgrade when i come back. >> maybe the tv set. you're messing with the antenna. i don't know. thanks iuorio and liesman. >> netflix shares flying 35% higher in the after hours on better than expected results. julia boorstin joins us now with her exclusive interview with netflix ceo reed hastings. >> he told me the quarter blowout was driven by the explosion of internet connected devices and investment in content. and despite unprecedented competition, he says the company has never been better positioned to thrive. >> we're continuing to gain momentum, to gain members and to gain content. but ultimately, what i think

will happen, is hulu will do its own exclusives. amazon will do its own original exclusives, and that we three will be like different channels, like abc, cbs, and nbc, or like showtime and hbo. and there will be a lot of room for us all to succeed, each doing our own content. >> how has the growth of these deep pocketed rivals changed your strategy? >> you know what's amazing? we're out spending those deep pocketing rifles in this area. so we're spending more on content than anybody else is for the internet. and that's why we won the disney deal. >> when will the streaming content be as good as the the dvd content? how do you address that frustration? >> we have to get back to our 60 million or 90 million subscribers to be able to afford that content and outbid everybody else. it's coming. we just have to grow and grow. we've got way more content than anybody else does. but it's not enough, and we know that. and we want to see everything on streaming, too. >> hastings says that despite the company's ongoing investments in content exclusive

content original content he has no plans to raise prices. coming up on "squawk on the street" hastings discusses the qwikster debacle and why he's doubling down on original content. becky? >> all right, julia. thank you very much. it's been an interesting interview. >> we're going to get some parting shots now from our guest host scott sperling of thl partners. and i don't know how much of this we want to -- >> we've had a lot of conversations off camera and i feel like we're really getting along well. >> you sound so surprised. >> i do. i do. well we -- in the past we've -- but we've we don't need to talk about this. i don't think what, what we were basically talking about was a strong private sector. is lifts all boats. and it -- and it's -- i've seen people call it a national tragedy that, that, if we grow at 2% a year, that that people that are in the country that deserve jobs and want to work and deserve moving up into the middle class, that it's a

national tragedy. >> they're the ones who get -- and we've seen this year in and year out they're the ones who get hurt the worst. the people who we most wanted help are the ones on the margin in terms of the job market, the first ones who get cut and the last ones who are going to get hired unless we have stronger growth. american industry is poised for dramatic growth. we can have a 3% to 4% gdp increase, real gdp increase. >> this year? >> i believe sometime in the next -- well, we could do it this year. >> good. >> if we could just get washington, and i'm using washington very broadly -- >> -- and all sides out of the way and let the markets work. and that's not to say that we don't and we haven't put in place reasonable regulation. we always need that. >> right. >> we always need safety net. nobody's talking about getting rid of safety nets for people because that's what we need. but we need to get them jobs. and the best way to get them jobs is to have growth. and the best way to get growth is to exploit the resources that

we have in a very effective way, in a way that protects people from any potential abuse. i think the oil and gas industry has proven they can do that. i think it's better deploying the resources we have at government but in a way that doesn't try to substitute for what people in this country have always wanted which is jobs and the ability to care for themselves. >> in general if you had a pool of capital and you only had so much you wouldn't necessarily want to grow the public sector and have it using that capital the way it sees fit. >> because the efficiency of the private sector is much greater. >> right. >> at performing those tasks. >> so we don't want to grow government we don't want to go up to 25% we want to come back down and match our revenues up with a lower level -- >> i grew up as a kennedy democrat. >> right. >> a john kennedy and bobby

kennedy. >> who cut taxes. >> who cut taxes, who wanted to help people but recognized that there were limits as to what you could do. the bedside project back in the 1960s was great, that bobby kennedy and jacobafter jit, this is really old history but i want to it because it's an example of the ideology of helping was there and it was great but it wasn't effective, didn't work and what has really worked in this country and what i've learned over the course of the last 35 years is allowing the private sector to do its job. and the government should do what it can to help people, but if you have too much imbalance, if you have too much government, then the private sector doesn't work effectively. >> do you attribute this sluggish growth to the new normal that came after the financial crisis, because of all the overleverage, and the reinhart rogoff? >> we've had lots of new normals over at least my -- >> is it self-inflicted is my point. >> i think it's more self-inflicted. >> now. >> i'll tell you why. i still remember in the late

1970s, early 1980s, stagflation. we were never going to get rid of stagflation. we were doomed to have 10 plus% inflation and 10 plus percent inemployment. >> i want to re-elected jimmy carter. and i want to see what the counterfactual is. because people don't attribute the '80s and '90s to the reagan revolution anymore. and i think if we had re-elected jimmy carter, we wouldn't necessarily have grown at four, five, six percent we wouldn't have -- >> we would have -- >> 700,000 people. >> we would have continued to grow at what he, you know, called not just stagflation but a malaise. >> a malaise. >> so, i think we would have had continued malaise. >> did we do it again? are we going to find out this time? >> look, our hope is that the parties can work together, and move things lower in a way that really helps the people again that we all want to help and allows the opportunity, and the

idea of america, that people, you know, like me, i think, like you, who started with very little, to be able to work hard. and accumulate enough to be able to give back to the country. >> either that -- >> and that's what we need. that's what america has been about. and that's what has separated us in some ways. >> either that or we're going to be really spring loaded in 2016. either we're going to get some of it near-term, which i hope, or wow are we going to be ready. >> that's right. >> really. >> thank you. >> so we agree on that. >> we do agree. >> like kennedy democrats. anyway thank you scott sperling. would reagan republicans and kennedy democrats are apparently not that different. >> as it turns out, they're not very different. s we look back. and quite frankly i don't think clinton democrats, of which i was one are all that -- >> you're leaving out one specific democrat that is maybe a little different. anyway, coming up the s.e.c.'s enforcement division is charged with investigating possible

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welcome back. there's an incredible amount of information that continuously flows into the s.e.c. they tell us that six terra bytes of digital data which apparently is a lot, e-mails and documents, come into the agency every month. gary kaminsky got rare access inside the s.e.c.'s division of enforcement. that's the unit that digs through all of that intelligence, looking for fraud. not looking for frauds. you might have had a problem. >> oh, yes. but we'll get to that in a minute. if the s.e.c. actually printed out all the documents coming in they say it's enough paper to fill 250,000 boxes. that's enough to fill the capitol rotunda after just a few months. they tell us in one year the agency receives about 30,000 tips and complaints. we asked bruce carpati if all the tips get taken seriously.

you know, bruce, a lot of people will say i contacted the s.e.c. i tried to alert them. i thought something was happening. i didn't hear back. nothing was ever done. >> at the s.e.c. we have a very dedicated wrkforce whose number one priority is investor protection. when i get a call, when others get a call, we take those tips seriously. now in terms of the methods we use, you may not hear from us, because we're actively investigating those matters. so the fact that somebody goes on the website, sends in a tip, thinks that that tip is not being investigated, you want them to know that's not the case. >> right. our investigations are nonpublic. they're confidential investigations. the fact is, is when we're alerted to those we get together and say, how can we get at this misconduct? how can we use technology? >> it really seems to be trying to turn a corner. they're hiring new people, specialized skills, bringing in new technology. they also gave us rare access into the forensic lab. if you find your hard drive in the hands of the s.e.c., joe, if

you find your hard drive in the hands of the s.e.c., because look out they're going to get data and things that you're not going to be believe. you happened to be making a joke earlier. >> as you know. >> if i were you i wouldn't even show my face over there. 30 years at neuberger berman. >> speaking of showing faces i e-mailed you a picture when i walk into s.e.c. you go down to d.c., you walk into the building, securities and exchange commission. it is a serious place and they've done an amazing job, you're going to see saddadam st. what happened when i walked into the building? >> you told me about the very first -- >> mug shot. >> mug shot that you saw. >> wasn't a mug shot. it was a live tv screen. >> it was a live tv screen. folks i walked into the s.e.c., washington, d.c., into the building and there is mr. joe kernen, cnbc, big tv monitor, right by the security guards, and that beautiful face. >> really? >> right there. >> first person, that i like. so, but they know me then. >> yes, they definitely know you.

i -- >> i'm on their radar screen. >> i asked the people do you guys watch cnbc? do you actually listen to the network? you hear stories, you think, and the answer you think, the answer is yes. i imagine they are watching right now. so if there's anything you want to come clean about or say anything, as i said, these guys -- >> a long time ago. those were the days -- >> the cold calling days. >> yeah and we got commissions for trading stock it wasn't like a rap fee where you just sat there and made money. >> this is joe kernen. let me tell you about a great bond offer we got there >> give me 10% of your confidence, let me earn the rest. you got to talk to your wife? you a man or a mouse? squeak up. see, i got all of them. dale carnegie. i don't want to talk about this. >> big news this morning, mary jo white is probably going to be, 2:30 today, expected to be nominated as new s.e.c. >> given the culture there now, she comes from a criminal background. the s.e.c. made a point to us many times, they are a civil enforcement -- >> comes from enforcing

criminals. doesn't come from a criminal background. >> u.s. attorney, southern district, from the criminal side, u.s. attorney, southern district, i think that this is a very positive development for the many positive things we saw down there in terms of what they are going to do >> white collar cry. >> check it out at 11:00, show you inside the crime lab exactly how they are tracking down insider trading. it is amazing. >> gary, thank you. we will watch you on "squawk on the street." next, jim cramer's take on apple, netflix and other stocks on the move today. stick around. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods' first day of work.

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welcome back, everybody, get down to the new york stock exchange. jim crime hears been standing by it has been a long winning streak for the major of a rams, but apple is certainly throwing things into a little bit of question today. what do you make of these numbers and what happens to the company from here? >> first, there is some nice symmetry here, jobless claims, five-year low, market, five-year high. so i think that we are maybe more tune eight tuned to those -- not attuned enough to the employment claims. apple is the case of people trying to figure out what you

figure for the long-term growth now that the company's growth is indeed slowing. they are trying to wait, refer to intestimony's growth, cisco's growth, google's growth. this should be ten times earnings now, the omg factor is not there you get an old growth stock out of a new growth story until the last three-quarters. >> spoken with several analysts today who say this is a cheap stock by all these metrics that they look at. talk to another that say what they need to do is start paying out a bigger dividend, boost the dividend, buy back more shares, not just 10 billion but buy back 100 billion in sharessome that the type of plan -- >> becky, that's what intel did, got a 4% yield, microsoft's done that. didn't matter in the end. what people look at is the growth rate. we love to see something be done with their cash. i would much rather see some

growth vehicle bought than any of those things because those are all one time and didn't work for microsoft and intel. they are not going to work for apple. >> amazing. it was cheap at 700. and by most measures, cheap at 600. then absolutely meaningless, depending on what is going to happen any given day. it's weird. >> the analysts have come in -- sad to watch analysts that come in, been saying it was cheap the entire way. isn't it kind of sad? >> yeah. i just think it's sad, it is -- look, got pay effect here. these are people who loved it on the way up. saw a guy. apple didn't deliver a sensational quarter. said on the quarter it was sensational, grating after a while to hear how great the quarter was, knowing that the stock was sinking as they talk.

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we just. have a couple of seconds. what do you have tomorrow? great conversations today? >> lloyd flank fine and sean parker and i'm going to be on facebook office hours, so "squawk box" on the street begins right now and we will see you tomorrow. ♪ you are the apple of my eye ♪ >> one thing investors not saying this morning after the disappointing quarter. welcome to "squawk on the street," i'm carl quintanilla with melissa lee, dajim cramer. our road map begins with a question, will apple gap down 10% this morning. no doubt you heard of last

night's revenue miss, iphone miss. we will cover the quarter from top to bottom. >> doesn't include apple, which is one reason it is outpacing the s & p 500, sits 3% from a record high. what is the outlook for the broader market on this? the best january looks like about 17 years. >> netflix is almost the inverse of apple, a surprise profit, better-than-expected outlook, a stream of upgrades and one very happy carl icahn. >> and rolls on tonight with microsoft and starbucks, preview the numbers as we travel to crane mer rick ka. >> down sharply to the lowest level in years. apple issuing current quarter guidance below census. many firms cutting apple. here is what crime her to say

about the company last week on his show, "mad money." >> of course, things can turn around in on a dime, my trust holds on apple can still dazzle. until then, the threats to the apple ecosystem are too great. the price of the goods too high, the ardor of the customer may be gown. all in all, a tough own, a tough hold, alas, a shame. >> jim, you sort of said it and added last night, don't let this stock become the eclipse that blinds you to everything else going on. >> you can't. the company's conference call was radically opposite of what everyone was thinking. and the company just kept going back to that mantra, listen, we have the best product. we don't really need to defend ourselves. and i think that what was happening was the analysts were viciously, viciously trying to figure out you can as the call was going on, what do you pay for a company with waning growth? what do you pay for a company